Dr. Gloijers }fammaUan Oeneric Names. 



193 



Papt». Name. 



I'M). Capri sr us. 



1.11. Diuochoerus. 



134, Dromedarius 



140. Passalites. 



140. Durcelapbus. 



154. Oritragus. 

 16(5. Ilydropithecus. 



Type. 



Sns pnpuon.xi.s. 

 I'hacoclurrus o^thiopicus. 



Camelus dromedarius. 

 P. neniorivajrus. 



" Cervus virpinianus." 



O. oreotragus. 



" ManatiLs siniia, 111." 



Remarks. 

 No reason for separatiDn from Su*. 

 Xo reason for separation from I'/iacu- 



chartts. 

 No reason for separation from Camelus. 

 Antedates Coassus, (Jray, 1S4;{. But 



other earlier names ni."\y have to 



come in for this and the next 



frenus. 

 Equal.s and antedates C'ariacun, Lesion, 



1842. 

 .\ntedates Oreotrarius, Gray, 1846. 

 Formed for an indeterminable animal 



seen bv Steller. 



It will thus be seen that the changes neces.sitated by the 

 recognition of Gloger's work are both few and unimportant. 

 The genera hitherto known a.s Sitomyft, Cuniculufi, and Platy- 

 cercomys have to bear wholly strange names ; Cariacus and 

 Coassus, as dating from Lesson, 1842, and Gray, 1843, are 

 antedated, unless still earlier references are found for them, 

 and several subgenera of greater or less validity need difierent 

 titles to those by which they are usually referred to. 



\\'ith regard to the most important of the animals affected, 

 the American Deer, it unfortunately happens that the diffi- 

 culties in the way of deciding between the rival claims of 

 Mazama, Kaf., Panalladon *, Raf., Odocoihus *, Raf., Ele- 

 jihalces^ Brookes, Passaliles, Glog., and Dorcelaphus, Glog., 

 aie so great that 1 am compelled to leave the question open 

 for the decision of such other zoologists as may tinil time to 

 attack this intricate subject. 



But all the other cases are quite clear, and in bringing 

 them forward and abolishing the remainder of Gloger's long 

 list of names it is hoped that the happy day may be a little 

 iiastened when we shall have got back to the earliest names 

 for all mammalian genera, so that younger generations of 

 workers will grow ujj knowing the proper names, and will 

 not have to suffer the endless inconvenience that our own 

 ha3 had to bear. 



* I owe these names to Mr. T. S. Palmer, of the Department of Ajn-i- 

 culture, \Vashii)j.'ton, who has been investigating^ this and kindred 

 (luestious. 



